Improvement in devices for propelling wagons



E. BAKER. Devices for Propelling Wagons.

Patented Feb. 5, 1878.1

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WITNESS E5.

N. PEIERS, PHOTOJJTMDGRAPNER, WASHING UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELBRIDGE BAKER, or SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR PROPELLING WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,016, dated February 5, 1878; application filed October 13, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELBRIDGE BAKER, of Salem, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented Improvements in Wagons, of which the following is a specification:

This improvement in wagons consists in mechanism arranged, as hereinafter described, to act directly on the ground to propel the wagon. Y

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wagon with my improved propelling mechanism, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section on line 00 .r, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents a wagon-body, B its fore and 0 its hind wheels, all as ordinarily.

a to represent two hangers, fastened to under side of wagon-body between the fore and .hind wheels B and G.

brepresents a horizontal shaft, which crosses the wagon-body, and turns in bearings at the lower ends of the hangers a a. This shaft has five crank-arms, c c c c 0 to all of which but 0 are loosely himg rods (1 ,11 d, and (1 respectively.

Each rod has a pronged foot-piece, f, and between the foot-piece f and the crank-hangin g of each rod the rod is suspended by a flexible line, g, from the body of the wagon.

I Turning the crank-shaft b in any suitable manner causes the pron ged foot-pieces f of the rods d d (Z and d to take hold of the ground, and thereby propel the wagon, and by arranging the cranks as is shown in the drawings one rod after the other is brought into and out of action, securing acontinuous action of the mechanism to propel the Wagon, all as is obvious Without further explanation,

The lines g hold and keep the rods to the action of their crank-arms, and cause the rods to be properly "brought, from time to time, by Y ELBRIDGE BAKER.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, GEO. H. EARL. 

